Though an extremely busy tourist town, Lukang is not a place of big, or many, hotels. We take you on visits to two of its most popular places to overnight and recommend some of Lukang’s best-known traditional hot-snack treats and the places to find them.
The tourism experience in Changhua’s Fangyuan Township includes intertidal-zone oyster harvesting, “iron ox” eco-tours, “sea ox” rides, fresh harborside seafood and tidal-flats oyster/clam barbecues, Seaside Skywalk mangrove forest exploring and more.
A great 1,000-hectare swath of flat, quiet Tianwei Township in Changhua County is a vast country garden, home to a dense bloom of decorative flower, plant, and tree nurseries. What is called the Tianwei Highway Garden has become a prominent tourist destination in recent decades.
The core of Lukang, located just off Taiwan’s central-west coast, is perhaps Taiwan’s best imperial-days living museum, a repository of heritage architecture even more concentrated than that found in the acclaimed core of Tainan City to the south.
The Tanyashen Green Bikeway is a cycling route in Taichung’s Daya and Shengang districts. It’s an easy ride through semi-rural areas with a number of interesting sights to discover.
If you want to learn about Taiwan’s indigenous tribes there is no better way than visiting an indigenous village. Alang Tongan in Nantou County is such a place.
You don’t need to travel to mountain villages to enjoy authentic indigenous dishes in Taiwan. There are fine restaurants in the heart of Taichung and in the town of Puli.
Sun Moon Lake is known for its beautiful scenery. There are many ways to have fun around and on the lake, including stand-up paddleboarding. At the village of Ita Thao, learn about the fascinating culture of the Thao Tribe.
